Orlando visitor traffic up in 2008 - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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percent from 2007 to 2008, with 48.9 million peoplde visiting the region, according to the The bureahu arrived at the estimate using data from travel researcg firm andthe U.S. Commerce Department. The bureau said the total was the secondto 2005, when 49.3 million people visited the area. However, visitor traffic is expecterd to be down significantlythis year, basefd on falling resort tax collections and numbera of the past five Orange County reported June 2 that resort tax collections were down 16 percen in April and revenuwe per available room during the same period was down 17.3 percent, according to Smith Travel. The increase in 2008 was drive byan 18.
9 percent rise in international visitors. Accordint to the bureau, which used its own data and surveyt information from theCommerce Department, 3.37 million foreign touristsd came to the Orlando area duringf the year. Travel from Canadz rose 20.1 percent to 940,000 About 959,000 travelers came from the United the largest source ofoverseaas traffic, a 3.1 percenty decrease from 2007. Domestic visitation, which accounts for 78 percent ofthe region’s tourist traffic, fell 0.1 percent durinyg the year, from 45.9 million in 2007 to 45.5 millioh in 2008.